Hi Jim,

I just stumbled onto your site literally by coincidence, thought I'd share my story with you.

I have used Anastasia, in fact just purchased some more credits before I found you (unfortunately.) Oh well. The girl I was writing with from Anastasia seemed to be very real, and after almost 8 months of writing, her profile was suddenly no longer available. The latest is quite nice too, but after reading your site, you're right, it seems odd that she was available to chat when it should be about four in the morning in Odessa.

Anyway, russianwoman.ca. Their ruse is that after 15 paid letters one can receive the personal information of any girl. I was writing with and fell for Lilia Kirik from Kiev. As soon as that 15th letter was done and I asked for her personal info, I was given a gmail address (which I no longer have) and she immediately would only send me very brief letters through the agency, saying nothing really. I tried a few times to talk to her at this gmail address, and was given a story that she was going on a business trip to Russia and would be gone for "some weeks." I never heard from her again.

Still naive, I started writing to another girl and actually flew to Kiev to meet her. She was indeed real, but obviously working a different angle than I had thought. She had told me she would take the week away from work that I was there so we could sight-see together, when she only actually went for supper with me three times. Our first date was accompanied by an interpreter, whom I paid almost 1000 Hryvnas, and was told I would have to pay 500 Hryvnas just to meet the girl. I not only got the honour of buying supper for this interpreter, but also got to pay cab fare for both of them, and was told it was "tradition" that the woman pays for nothing. I recevied a call at my hotel from this interpreter offering to introduce me to other girls "to make my stay in Kiev more comfortable," but refused, as I finally had caught on. When discovering I was not actually a millionaire, the girl I had gone to meet was polite, but as I said, we only had supper and nothing more. Also I noticed when writing to her that her letters would be marked as "read" at a time of day that was too early to be possible with the time difference, i.e. read at 7:50 AM, when it would have been 9:30 their time when I wrote the letter. Oh, the things you see after the fact!

I noticed when I was billed for letters that russianwoman is a division of 1st International Dating, so maybe you know all about these guys anyway. I just thought I'd flag russianwoman for you. The girl I met was real, but the whole experience left me feeling a bit unsettled.

Thanks Jim!
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